Review: The research subject is legal regulation of the control functions of regional anti-corruption agencies. The purpose of the research is to systematize the control functions of regional anti-corruption agencies, to analyze their essence and to develop the proposals about the improvement of legal regulation of their activities. The study solves the following tasks:
- To reveal the essence of the control function of regional anti-corruption agencies;
- To detect, describe and systematize the main forms of control in the sphere of anti-corruption activities of these agencies;
- To define the main forms of public control, applied by regional anti-corruption agencies;
- To analyze legal regulation of control functions of regional anti-corruption agencies;
- To develop recommendations about the improvement of legal regulation and organization of anti-corruption control activities of regional anti-corruption agencies.
The research methodology is based on dialectical materialism and the relevant general scientific research methods: analysis, synthesis, comparison and other methods, used in the legal sciences. The scientific novelty consists in the analysis and explanation of the control functions of regional anti-corruption agencies, description of their main forms, essence and main directions of their control activities.

Review: The article studies the problem of application of administrative instruments of combating corruption in the social sphere. This issue is conditioned by legal and organizational problems of combating corruption in the social sphere. The problem of corruption in the social sphere is particularly important since it affects the quality of people’s life. The author explains the necessity to increase the effectiveness of administrative instruments of combating corruption in the social sphere. The author suggests improving both material and procedural administrative instruments of combating corruption in the social sphere. The research methodology is based on the modern achievements of epistemology. The author applies general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the system method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation and modeling), traditional legal methods (formal logical) and the methods of special sociological research (statistical, expert assessments, etc.). The author concludes that at present, in order to ensure legality in the social sphere, it is necessary to improve the quality of various administrative instruments of combating corruption in the social sphere. The author states the necessity to develop legal regulation of combating corruption in the social sphere with the help of administrative instruments.

Review: The research subject is the range of legal problems of combating corruption in the social sphere. The author analyzes constitutional regulation of combating corruption in the social sphere from the position of constitutional law. The paper demonstrates the author’s positions on the combating corruption concept. The main attention is paid to the development of methods and methodology of constitutional regulation of combating corruption in the social sphere. Besides, the author analyzes the concepts of development of constitutional law in the context of combating corruption in Russia. The research methodology is based on the recent achievements in epistemology. The author applies general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the system method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation and modeling), traditional legal methods (formal-logical) and the methods of special sociological research (statistical, expert assessments, etc.). The author concludes that at present, in order to ensure legality in the social sphere, it is necessary to improve forms and methods of constitutional regulation of combating corruption. The author states the necessity to develop constitutional regulation of combating corruption. The novelty of the study consists in the proposals about the development of forms and methods of state regulation of the social sphere.

Review: The research subject is the range of administrative problems of corruption prevention in the social sphere. The author analyzes administrative rules of corruption prevention in the social sphere from the position of constitutional law. The paper demonstrates the author’s positions on the corruption prevention concept. The main attention is paid to the development of methods and methodology of constitutional regulation of corruption prevention in the social sphere. Besides, the author analyzes the concepts of administrative law development in the context of corruption prevention. The research methodology is based on the recent achievements in epistemology. The author applies general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the system method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation and modeling), traditional legal methods (formal logical), and the methods of specific sociological research (statistical, expert evaluations, etc.). The author concludes that at present, in order to ensure legality in the social sphere, it is necessary to improve forms and methods of administrative regulation of corruption prevention. The author states the necessity to develop constitutional regulation of corruption prevention. The scientific novelty consists in the proposals about the development of forms and methods of administrative regulation of the social sphere.

Review: The research subject is the Model provisions on the corruption prevention coordination Commission in the subordinate entity of the Russian Federation established by the Presidential Decree of 15 July 2015 No 364 “On the measures of corruption prevention improvement”. The paper considers the issues of legal status of the corruption prevention coordination Commission, the legal grounds of its activities and its purpose, analyzes the experience of this Commission in the Republic of Tatarstan. The research is based on the Presidential Decree of 15 July 2015 No 364 “On the measures of corruption prevention improvement”, and statutory instruments of the federal and local level. The author applies general scientific and specific research methods: formal-logical, comparative-legal and the method of legal provisions interpretation. The scientific novelty of the study is determined by the lack of scientific works in this field. The author concludes that the formation of corruption prevention cooperation commissions in the entities of the Russian Federation promotes the standardization of the state policy of corruption prevention in the entities of the Russian Federation and establishes a vertical in the system of corruption combating in Russia.

Review: Corruption in health care is not limited to damaging legal activities of public authorities, local authorities, state and municipal organizations, state corporations, Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, other troops and military units of the Russian Federation, but influences directly the condition of observance of citizens’ rights for health protection and finally the preservation of life. The problem of corruption crimes in health care hasn’t been sufficiently covered in the scientific works. The research object of this paper is the range of social relations protecting legal activities in health care. The author considers the corruption crimes statistics, studies the examples of judicial and investigatory practice. The author forms the list of corruption crimes in health care. The obtained results are compared with the empirical data of studies of other scholars in the related subjects. The author uses the set of general scientific and special methods of cognition. The author ascertains the fact that neither the existing legislation nor law enforcement practice can effectively resist corruption so far, particularly in health care. Therefore it is necessary to continue studying the problems of corruption crimes qualification in the social sphere, including health care, and the reasons and conditions furthering them.

Sokolova O.S..
On the issue of corruption indicators in the system of public and municipal service
// Administrative and municipal law. – 2015. – ¹ 12.
– P. 1287-1291.
DOI: 10.7256/1999-2807.2015.12.16873.

Review: The subject of the article is the process of formation of a set of indicators reflecting dynamics and character of corruption offences in the system of public and municipal service. The author analyzes the existing approaches to the assessment of corruption level taking into account the international and Russian practice. The main attention is paid to the classification of indicators based on corruption crimes revealed by corruption prevention units of public and local authorities. These offences rate among disciplinary delinquencies, and the proposed indicators reflect the level of anticorruption discipline in public and local authorities. The author applies general philosophical methods (the systems method, analysis, synthesis, analogy), traditional legal methods (formal-logical) and statistical methods. The author concludes that it is necessary to connect corruption indicators with the formation of anticorruption policy and efficiency assessment of anticorruption measures, which corresponds with the methodology developed by the Audit Chamber of the Russian Federation. The novelty of the research lies in the development of suggestions about the application of corruption indicators for development and (or) correction of targeted anticorruption measures in public or local authorities.

Review: The subject of the research is the range of legal and organizational problems of combating corruption in the system of civil service. The object of the research is the range of public relations connected with combating corruption in the system of civil service. The author considers the components of the mechanism of administrative-legal regulation of combating corruption and formulates the proposals about the increase of the efficiency of administrative-legal means of combating corruption. The main attention is paid to the development of the criteria of efficiency of combating corruption. The methodology of the research is based on the recent achievements of epistemology. The author applies the general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the systems method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), the traditional legal methods (formal-logical), and the methods of special sociological research (statistical methods, expert assessment, etc.). The author concludes that combating corruption in the system of civil service is not efficient enough. Therefore, it is necessary to develop the legal base for the activities of public authorities and public administration aimed at combating corruption. The main contribution of the author is the attention to this problem. The novelty of the research lies in the development of instruments for combating corruption in the system of public service.

Review: The research focuses on the essential characteristics of anti-corruption enlightenment and anti-corruption education as two interconnected and interdependent forms of anti-corruption activity, and their correlation. The study aims at: a) revelation of essential characteristics of anti-corruption enlightenment and anti-corruption education; b) assessment of their correlation as the forms of anti-corruption activity; c) outlining of the common and the specific features of both notions; d) the analysis of normative legal acts regulating the sphere of anti-corruption enlightenment and education. The methodology is based on dialectical materialism; the main research method is structural analysis which helped to define the correlation of anti-corruption enlightenment and education. The main conclusions of the study are: a) anti-corruption education and anti-corruption enlightenment are different means of combating corruption with a significant anti-corruption potential, though having some similarities; b) they differ in all structural elements: goals and tasks, subjects and objects, means of implementation, legal regulation and legal consequences.

Review: The object of the research is anti-corruption education. The subject of the research is a range of quantitative indices characterizing the effectiveness of anti-corruption education as an instrument of corruption combating, contained in federal, regional and municipal normative legal acts. The aim of the study is to develop the system of indices characterizing the effectiveness of anti-corruption education. The main tasks of the research are: 1) to analyze and assess the main indices characterizing the effectiveness of anti-corruption education, contained in the existing Russian normative legal acts; 2) to systematize the existing indices characterizing the effectiveness of anti-corruption education; 3) to develop and suggest the author’s indices characterizing the effectiveness of anti-corruption education and to reveal their essence. The author uses the comparative-legal method, the structural and the systems methods of analysis of legal documents and other methods of the modern Russian jurisprudence. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the analysis of quantitative indices characterizing the effectiveness of anti-corruption education, contained in federal, regional and municipal normative legal acts. The described system of anti-corruption education effectiveness assessment can be used for the monitoring of efficiency of this instrument of corruption combating.

Review: The subject of the research is anti-corruption audit as a special instrument of combating corruption and a form of control over realization of the government anti-corruption policy. The main tasks of the research are: a) to analyze the Russian normative legal acts in the sphere of organization and realization of anti-corruption audit; b) to develop the author’s scientific legal definition of anti-corruption audit; c) to reveal the essence of anti-corruption audit as an instrument of combating corruption and a form of control over realization of the government anti-corruption policy. The methodology of the research is based on dialectical materialism and the general scientific methods of cognition: analysis, synthesis, comparison and others. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the development of the scientific legal category of “anti-corruption audit”, the revelation of the content of anti-corruption audit as an instrument of combating corruption and a form of control over realization of the government anti-corruption policy, and the analysis of the legal base of anti-corruption audit organization and realization.

Review: The object of the research is anti-corruption consultation as a form of anti-corruption education. The aim of the research is to develop a scientific legal category of “anti-corruption consultation” and to reveal its content. The tasks of the study are: a) to analyze normative legal acts referring to anti-corruption consultation; b) to evaluate the specificity of anti-corruption consultation legal regulation; c) to understand and to reveal the content of anti-corruption consultation as a form of anti-corruption education; d) to analyze normative legal acts and scientific literature devoted to the problems of anti-corruption consultation. The methodology of the research is based on dialectical materialism and the correlating methods of comparative jurisprudence, structural and system analysis. The scientific novelty and the importance of the research lie in the fact that on the base of analysis of federal, regional and municipal normative legal acts for the first time in Russian legal science it reveals the content of anti-corruption consultation as a form of anti-corruption education and offers its scientific legal category.

Review: The article is devoted to the legal analysis of one of the means of combating corruption – reporting by a public servant his revenue (expenses), property and property commitment. The issues of combating corruption in Russia are urgent; they are considered by the scientific community as well as by law enforcers. In the present conditions the state works out and implements new anticorruption mechanisms of legal regulation of a wide range of public relations. The research is based on the general methods of scientific cognition, including the theoretical methods of analysis and synthesis, the method of deduction and others. Taking into account that the executives are often the participants of anticorruption procedures, the essential part of anticorruption measures relates to the subject of responsibility of administrative law. The scientific novelty of the research lies in explanation of anticorruption avowal from the position of institutional building of a system of administrative law.

Review: The highest level of social danger of corruption activity is unquestionable: firstly, nowadays corruption is an inevitable concomitant of all authorities execution, especially in the sphere of social goods distribution; secondly, the increase of corruption in society indicates the low efficiency of the existing measures of coercion and other forms of social control and prevention; thirdly, corruption, including its active aspect, is a dynamic, developing and various social phenomenon, and this fact determines a relative character of any scientific results of the study of this phenomenon and predetermines the perspectives of the future research. The article considers the particular criminological aspects of combating corruption. It reveals the forms and types of corruption; characterizes the causes and the consequences of corruption. The study of corruption as a social phenomenon is carried out in complex: using criminology, administrative, constitutional, public and labour law, political science, economics, and psychology. The authors come to the conclusion that the scale of criminogenic factors, determining the corruption activity nowadays, is not proportional to anti-corruption measures. The authors note that for an adequate assessment of corruption in Russia and application of effective measures of coercion, for revelation and prevention it is necessary to consider corruption not as a one-time case, but as a considered, illegal "custom of corruption business intercourse", and to admit that corruption is a serious scientific problem which should be solved within interdisciplinary approach.

Review: The aticle is devoted to the problem of definition of typical features of anti-corruption ezpertize by municipal bodies. The study considers the specificity of liability for curruption of particular types of municipal legal acts. The author pays attention to the most frequent factors encouraging corruption in these legal acts, reveals regularities, typical faults and shortcomings of legal acts and their projects anti-corruption expertize in municipalities according to the data of the research. The results of the research give the opportunity to formulate the suggestions about anti-corruption expertize improvement. The author uses the method of contextual analysis of legal acts and the practices of their application (returns, judicial practice, documents circulation). The analysis of regional legislation, judicial practice, returns of state authorities demonstrates the absence of systematism in subjects' actions. The bodies organize different events aimed at the decrease of corruption risks, but they are of fragmentary character. Thus the author makes a suggestion for the bodies, executing anti-corruption expertize, to systematize anti-corruption activities, to adjust their cooperation. The article can be of interest to scientific researchers, lecturers, students and postgraduates of juridical universities, and for the developers of legal acts.

Review: The article is devoted to the disputable questions of the existing legal normative acts expertize by the public prosecution bodies of the Russian Federation. The research subject is a review expertise in the sphere of combating corruption. The author considers the peculiarities of corruptibility expertises carried out by the public prosecution bodies, and their difference from the expertises carried out by other bodies. The research contains the discussion about the role of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation in anti-corruption expertize. Special attention is paid to the assize, dealing with the Public Prosecutor’ office’s demands. The methodology of the research is based on the dialectical materialism and the universal general scientific methods of cognition: comparison, analysis, synthesis, and others. The author concludes that review expertise, held by the public prosecution bodies, is one of the most effective types of expertise due to the absence of its dependence on the authors of legal acts, on the one hand, and the regularity of anti-corruption expertize and, consequently, a wide experience in this sphere, on the other hand. In the conclusion the author proves the necessity of amending of part 1 art 251 of Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation “Filing Applications for Disputing Legal Normative Acts”

Review: The research subject is the Anglo-Saxon legal system as one of the most widespread systems in the world juridical practice. The authors note that many countries of this legal system have been more successful in combating corruption than the Russian Federation, and the adoption of their experience could have positive results in the Russian practice. It is possible that the results of the analysis of different methodological approaches, applied in the formation of norms about the subjects of corruption crimes, based on the international and foreign experience, will help the scholars to formulate the universal system of efficiency criteria of the national penal legislation depending on the degree of coverage of corruption crimes subjects whose socially dangerous acts form penal corruption. On the base of the comparative-legal method the authors analyze a wide range of archive materials, scientific works, and press. The application of the formal-juridical method helped formulate the authors’ definitions. In the authors’ opinion, Russian penal legislation should organically allocate with penal legislation of foreign states in order to provide the functioning of a single interstate legal system of combating corruption as a crime. It should meet the modern corruption challenges and timely criminalize the most dangerous forms of corruption. It should also contain certain principles, providing the opportunity (following the principles of legality and guilt) to immediately react to the new ways, methods and forms of corruption crimes within the provided by penal legislation (in the special part of Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) components of crime.

Review: The article considers the basic principles of anti-corruption expertise of normative legal acts, their essence and
the problems of application. The article analyzes the difficulties with specification of education and competency requirements
of the professionals carrying out the anti-corruption expertise of legal acts, and evaluation of a normative legal
act in its connection with other normative acts. The author considers the requirement of sufficiency, objectivity and verifiability
of anti-corruption expertise results. The article raises a problem of possibility of cooperation between independent
experts and public authorities during anti-corruption expertise carrying out. The article studies the problems of application
of anti-corruption expertise principles application, and offers the ways of solution. The author uses the method of
textual analysis of legislative enactments, the dialectical-materialistic method of scientific cognition, the methods of
social-legal research (the comparative legal method), and the formal logical method. The author concludes that the
principles of anti-corruption expertise should regulate anti-corruption expertise carrying out, set the frameworks and the
character of functioning for the developers of normative acts and the experts. The conclusions made will facilitate the
development of anti-corruption policy.

Review: The Decree of the President of Russia of 11.04.2014 ¹226 “On the National Plan of Combating Corruption
for 2014 – 2015” formed the topical problems of scientific research for 2014 – 2015 years. One of them is a formation
of a system of bans, restrictions and responsibilities, also in relation to commercial organizations, aimed at combating
corruption. From the viewpoint of security measures this article considers the anti-corruption restrictions imposed on a
former commercial organization employee who continued in a government body. The author uses the general scientific and the special methods of cognition: analysis, synthesis, modeling, the formal-logical method, the system-structural
method, and the statistical and sociological methods. According to the existing legislation there can appear a situation
when a manager of a commercial or another organization, which has been noticed using the corruption methods (the
very organization, or its employees have been mage answerable for corruption offences), can without any restrictions
apply for an executive position in a state or municipal authority. It is supposed that public service doesn’t change person’s
behavior or code of conduct. In this case the state as an employer, having received the information about the previous
offences or illegal activities of a job applicant, should have the guarantees of honesty of the applicant on a public service.
At the moment in order to prevent getting jobs by dishonest persons the employer can use the institution of the manager’s
responsibility for the organization’s actions. It is suggested amending the Law on Combating Corruption with the
article 12.6 “Restrictions imposed on a person getting job in a state or a municipal service who had worked as a manager
in a commercial or a non-commercial organization which was made accountable for corruption offences”.

Keywords: prevention on organizations, combating corruption, organization manager, public service, municipal service, security measures, system of restrictions, the Decree of the President of Russia of 2014 – 2015, private sector, responsibility of organization manager.

Kabanov, P.A..
Public hearings on the issues of fighting corruption as one of the forms of interaction of the civil society institutions
with the public government bodies in the process of public control: definition, contents, implementation mechanism.
// Administrative and municipal law. – 2014. – ¹ 10.
– P. 1101-1110.
DOI: 10.7256/1999-2807.2014.10.13207.

Review: The object of studies involves public hearings on the issues of fighting corruption as one of the forms of interaction
of the civil society institutions with the public government bodies in the process of public control. The goal of the
study is to describe and to explain the contents of public hearings on the issues of fighting corruption as one of the forms
of interaction of the civil society institutions with the public government bodies in the process of public control. The immediate
goals of the study involve: a) describing the contents of public hearings on the issues of fighting corruption as
one of the forms of public control; b) to develop the scientific legal definition of public hearings on the issues of fighting
corruption as one of the forms of interaction of the civil society institutions with the public government bodies in the
process of public control; c) to offer mechanisms for the implementation of the public hearings on the issues of fighting
corruption as one of the forms of interaction of the civil society institutions with the public government bodies in the process
of public control. The methodological basis for the studies is based upon the dialectic materialism, and the general
scientific methods of cognition used in the modern humanities. The scientific novelty is due to the fact that for the first
time in the legal science the author offers a scientific legal definition of the public hearings on the issues of fighting corruption
as one of the forms of interaction of the civil society institutions with the public government bodies in the process
of public control, discussing the contents of this legal category, offering procedural and technological mechanisms for the
implementation of the public hearings on the issues of fighting corruption as a form of public control.

Review: The object of studies involves anti-corruption functions of the cadres divisions for the prophylactics of corruption-
related and other offences of the public government bodies of the Russian Federation. The goal of the studies is to
describe and to explain main and subsidiary guaranteeing functions of the cadres divisions of the public government
bodies in the sphere of prophylactics of corruption-related and other offences. The immediate goals of the studies involve
the following: a) description of the legal fundamentals for the activities of the cadres divisions for the prophylactics
of corruption-related and other offences of the public government bodies reflecting their anti-corruption functions; b)
classification of anti-corruption functions of the cadres divisions of the public government bodies regarding corruptionrelated
and other offences; c) discussing elements of the anti-corruption functions of the cadres divisions for the prophylactics
of corruption-related and other offences of the public government bodies. The methodological basis for the studies
involved a dialectic method, and general scientific methods widely accepted in the sphere of jurisprudence: systemic
and structural analysis, comparison, etc. The scientific novelty is due to the fact that for the first time in the Russian legal
science the author provides the definition of anti-corruption functions of the cadres divisions for the prophylactics of corruption-related and other offences of the public government bodies based upon the analysis of normative legal acts
and other documents, discussing their contents and providing a scientific classification of anti-corruption functions of the
cadres divisions for the prophylactics of corruption-related and other offences of the public government bodies.

Review: The object of studies involves legal regulation of the activities of the specialized federal anti-corruption body:
the Presidential Anti-Corruption Department. The goal of the study is to describe goals and targets, competence and
structures of the Expert Council under the auspices of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Department. The target of the
study is to reveal the contents of the main goals of the Expert Council under the auspices of the Presidential Anti-Corruption
Department, as well as the main spheres of its competence and to propose the measures for the improvement
of regulation of activities of the Expert Council under the auspices of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Department in
the sphere of fighting corruption. The main method of studies was the traditional dialectic cognition method and the
general scientific methods based upon it, such as analysis, comparison, etc. The article for the first time in legal literature provides description and explanation of legal regulation of the activities of the specialized federal anti-corruption
body — the Expert Council under the auspices of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Department, as well as description
of its activities, main goals, competence and structures. Also, some measures are offered for the improvement of legal
regulation of activities of this body.

Review: Current Russian legislation provides that anti-corruption expertise of normative legal acts and drafts of normative
legal acts of state government and municipal bodies is one of the directions in the sphere of fighting corruption
(Federal Law of December 25, 2008 N. 273-FZ “On Fighting Corruption”, Federal Law of July 17, 2009 N. 172-FZ “On Anti-
Corruption Expertise of Normative Legal Acts and Drafts of Normative Legal Acts”). This article is devoted to the issues
of holding an independent anti-corruption expertise, its specificities and recommendations for the practical application
of normative legal acts regulating the procedure for this expertise. The methodological basis for the scientific article
was formed by the current achievements of the theory of cognition. In the process of studies the author used general
philosophical, theoretical and empiric methods (dialectics, systemic method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction,
observation, modeling), traditional legal methods ( formal logic method), and methods typical for specific sociological
studies (statistical, expert evaluation, etc.). The article provides analysis of the foremost important principles and aspects
of application of norms of the Russian legislation on holding independent anti-corruption expertise. In the process of
studies based upon the analysis of the legal practice, the author reveals existing problems in this sphere and proposes
possible solutions to overcome these problems. The conclusions of the article may be of use for the state government and
municipal bodies, law-enforcement bodies, as well as persons and legal entities qualified as independent experts by the
Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

Yulegina, E.I..
Administrative legal characteristics of the problems in the sphere of interaction between the government bodies and
institutions of the civil society in the sphere of fighting corruption.
// Administrative and municipal law. – 2014. – ¹ 8.
– P. 866-872.
DOI: 10.7256/1999-2807.2014.8.12199.

Review: The article concerns specific features of interaction between the state government bodies and civil society
institutions. The author provides administrative legal characteristics of participation of the civil society institutions
in the sphere of implementation of the public administration. The author makes a conclusion on the presence of two
interrelated problems in the sphere of interaction between the state government and civil society institutions. Firstly,
while institutional fundamentals for the interaction between the state and civil society are provided, the society is not ready for active interaction and it is not an equally important partner in these relations. Secondly, the mechanism for
such an interaction requires stage-by-stage implementation in order to involve the society in the participation of public
administration. The author analyzes the role of interaction between the state bodies and civil society in the sphere
of reform of public administration via fighting corruption. The author provides comparative legal analysis of current
legislation regulating various aspects of interaction between society and state and representative data of various
non-governmental organization based upon polls among the citizens and business structures in order to reveal their
opinions on the situation in the sphere of civil society in Russia. Scientific novelty of this article is due to the fact that
for the first time it provides analysis of the problems of interaction between the stage government bodies and civil
society both in general, and from the standpoints of fighting corruptions and gaps in their administrative legal regulation.
Raising efficiency of interaction between the government and civil society is de facto declarative, while being
one of the directions of administrative reform. Interaction between the government and civil society did not result
in either real influence of society upon the administrative decision-making of the government bodies, or the control
over the activities of the state apparatus by the people, or fighting corruption. However, changes in the policy on raising
efficiency of public administration is already aimed at a comprehensive solution of the problems in these spheres
targeting at the social and public-private partnership. Accordingly, the measures taken in order to involve the citizens
into modernization of public administration should work. Therefore, comprehensive solution of the problems in the
sphere of interaction between the state and civil society should have a positive influence upon the involvement of the
latter in fighting corruption.

Review: The object of this study is the combination of norms of the Russian criminal, criminal procedural, tax, financial
and other branches of law, regulating the protection of social relations, criminal responsibility for the corruption-aimed
official crime, as well as the measures of special (criminological) prophylactics, which are aimed at abolition, weakening
and neutralization of crime-generating factors, correction of persons, who may commit or have already committed such
crimes. The article involves analysis of preventive measures in the sphere of fighting corruption with the consideration of
the criteria influencing their efficiency and perspectives. The methodological basis involved the general research methods
for corruption-aimed official crimes as social-legal manifestations. The work involved general scientific methods: deduction
and induction, analysis and synthesis, as well as specific scientific methods of studies: comparative legal method,
systemic structural method and statistical method. The scientific novelty involves scientific substantiation by the authors
of the need to develop preventive measures in the sphere of fighting corruption crime. The authors attempt to reveal a
number of topical aspects of preventive ( prophylactic) measures, providing substantiated statements and proposals for
the improvement of legal norms for the minimization and abolition of corruption elements in the modern society.

Review: In the current social, economic and political conditions the Russian Federation faces numerous challenges
and threats. One of the problems forming a significant obstacle in the way of many state reforms, infringing upon
the rights and lawful interests of natural persons and legal entities in their interaction with the state government and
administration bodies is the problem of corruption. This problem influenced the public interests of states throughout
the development of human civilization and statehood. Due to the corruption many empires have fallen, great
moral and material damage was caused. The methodological basis for the scientific article was formed by the current
achievements of the theory of cognition. In the process of studies the author used general philosophical, theoretical
and empiric methods (dialectics, systemic method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling),
traditional legal methods ( formal logic method), and methods typical for specific sociological studies (statistical, expert
evaluation, etc.). The problem of corruption cannot be resolved within a short period of time. Almost every state
took a certain amount of time to overcome this problem, and throughout this period of time the legislation against
corruption was passed, necessary structures against corruption were formed, civil society developed, etc. This was the
evolutionary way of many states, which are now industrially developed states. A similar process is currently ongoing
in the Russian Federation.

Lavrentieva, O.O..
Administrative legal means for the minimization of corruption risks in the system of public civil service and the
principles of their implementation.
// Administrative and municipal law. – 2014. – ¹ 5.
– P. 469-477.
DOI: 10.7256/1999-2807.2014.5.11934.

Review: In the modern social, economic and political conditions the Russian Federation is facing many threats and
challenges. One of the problems considerably complicating many public reforms, violating rights and lawful interests of
the natural persons and legal entities interacting with the state government and administration bodies I the problem of
corruption. This problem has been involved with the public interests of states throughout the history of development of
human civilization and statehood. Due to corruption many empires have fallen, and the sovereignty of many states was
undermined, moral and material damage was caused. That is why for the sake of its own survival the public government
has to fight the negative social and legal phenomenon of corruption, which undermines its fundamentals and makes the
system of state administration inefficient. The methodological basis for the scientific article was formed by the current
achievements of the theory of cognition. In the process of studies the author used general philosophical, theoretical
and empiric methods (dialectics, systemic method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling),
traditional legal methods ( formal logic method), and methods typical for specific sociological studies (statistical, expert
evaluation, etc.). There is not a single industrially developed state without corruption. At the same time, there are rather
many states, where the corruption level according to the national statistics and studies by international NGOs is very
low. That is why, one may see the direct dependency between solving the corruption problem and growth of the national
well-being of the state and society. Almost every state, which has achieved any success in fighting corruption, followed
a certain pattern with due consideration to the national traditions, mentality of the people, political and legal regime.

Review: In this article for the first time in the Russian legal science based upon the analysis of regional anti-corruption
legislation and relate normative legal acts, as well as Russian and foreign scholarly sources the author provides
comparative legal analysis of the legal category “anti-corruption agitation” and related legal definitions. Using the
method of structural analysis the author uncovers the key contradictions and defects in the approaches of Russian
and foreign scholars towards elements of anti-corruption agitation as information means for fighting corruption, and
the author offers his own definition of anti-corruption agitation. The definition, which is offered by the author has a
number of advantages, namely, it has a more complete description of a range of competent subjects in the sphere of
anti-corruption agitation, points out the object of anti-corruption agitation, defines and fixates the main goals of anticorruption
agitation, refers to the subjects of anti-corruption agitation, provides for the use of unlimited range of anticorruption
information means, forms and methods of implementation, allows to unify anti-corruption law-making and
improve the quality of regional and municipal law-making activity.

Review: The article concerns the possibility of using the mechanisms for public-private partnerships in relation to
fighting corruption. It is noted in the article that the Anglo-Saxon states have a progressive approach towards fighting corruption in the private law sphere. There is a positive practice of responsibility for the bribery in the private sphere
not in a domestic territory of the state, but also abroad. At the same time the measures for the prevention of private
law corruption, rather than the repressive measures, are regarded as having the most perspective in company sphere.
Due to taking a number of obligations within a number of international anti-corruption acts
(first of all the UN Convention Against Corruption of October 31, 2003 and the OECD Convention on Combating
Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions) the legislation of the Russian Federation on
corruption prevention was significantly changed and amended. One of such changes included legislative provisions
for the prevention of corruption in the private law sphere. In particular, the Federal Law “On Fighting Corruption” was
amended with the Art. 13.3 “Obligation of organizations to take measures to prevent corruption”, according to which
the organizations were obliged to develop and adopt measures for corruption prevention. The implementation of a
complex of such measures should be aimed at formation and introduction of internal corporate anti-corruption policy
with detailed regulation of such activities.

Review: The article includes analysis of the requirements to the experts holding anti-corruption expertise of legal
acts and their drafts. She notes positive and negative features of the expertise by various state bodies, and states,
that in some cases they are not sufficiently professional, causing the need to involve competent independent experts
on contractual basis for anti-corruption expertise. The article includes analysis of scholarly propositions on
stricter requirements to independent experts. It is substantiated that the current requirements are sufficient, while
it is necessary to improve the education level of independent experts by providing specialized courses and certificates.
As an alternative to the certificate courses it is offered to organize obligatory seminars for the experts. The
author also notes the need for additional education of state officials involved in anti-corruption expertise according
to their competence.

Kabanov, P.A..
The competence of specialized regional advisory anti-corruption bodies in the sphere of information support for
the formation and implementation of state policy for fighting corruption: analysis of legal regulation and some
directions for its improvement.
// Administrative and municipal law. – 2014. – ¹ 1.
– P. 58-64.
DOI: 10.7256/1999-2807.2014.1.10525.

Review: The object of this study includes: a) key provisions of the regional by-law normative legal acts regulating the
activities of specialized regional advisory, coordinative, expert, consultative, inter-departmental anti-corruption bodies
(councils and commissions on fighting corruption) in the sphere of information support for the state policy against
corruption at the regional level; b) key forms and means of information support of state policy against corruption at
the regional level, as provided for in the normative legal acts; c) main measures aimed at the improvement of legal
regulation of the information support of the state policy against corruption at the regional level. The author uses
comparative legal method as the main scientific study method, and it is used to analyze the activities of specialized
regional advisory anti-corruption bodies together with the general scientific methods: analysis and synthesis. The
scientific novelty of the study is due to the fact that for the first time in the Russian legal the author evaluates legal
regulation of the activities of the specialized regional advisory anti-corruption bodies in the sphere of information
guarantees of the state policy against corruption. The main conclusions are as follows: the author offers measures
for the improvement of legal regulation of the activities of the specialized regional advisory anti-corruption bodies,
which include formation of the regional anti-corruption information policy; monitoring of efficiency of the information
support system for the regional anti-corruption policy; development of proposals on the improvement of the system of
information support of the regional anti-corruption policy.

Review: The article is devoted to classification of types of anti-corruption expertise of normative legal acts and
drafts of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation. The topicality of this issue is due to the fact that
it was not adequately studied within the theory of administrative law. The author analyzes the views of various
legal scholars on the issues of classification of anti-corruption expertise of normative legal acts and drafts of such
acts. Based upon the study the author offers her own criteria for the classification of anti-corruption expertise
of normative legal act and draft normative legal acts of the FCS of the Russian Federation. At the current stage
of development of the Russian society it is recognized at the state level that Russia faces large-scale corruption,
which causes grave harm to social and economic well-being of the state and security of the state. Currently, an
efficient measure against corruption is anti-corruption expertise of normative legal acts and drafts of normative
legal acts. Establishing specific features of interaction among the elements of anti-corruption expertise of
normative legal acts and draft normative legal acts is an important issue in its studies.

Review: The article includes the comparative legal study of the contents of the legal category “anti-corruption propaganda”
as used in the current Russian regional anti-corruption legislation. As a result of the study the author comes
to a conclusion that the current Russian regional anti-corruption legislation has no unified approach towards the
legal category of “anti-corruption propaganda”, so sometimes it gains various meanings, which do not correspond to
its initial elements. The main reasons for the ambiguity within the legal category of “anti-corruption propaganda” in
the regional anti-corruption legislation include lack of professionalism by the drafters of the regional anti-corruption
legislation an lack of scientifically supported legal definition of this anti-corruption instruments and provisions for
it in the federal normative legal acts. Based upon the study the author comes to a conclusion that there is need to
scientifically develop a legal category of “anti-corruption propaganda” and to improve legal regulation of this type of
anti-corruption activity.

Review: The article contains analysis of declared and achievable goals of regional anti-corruption monitoring
with the use of comparative legal instruments. The author uncovers the obvious contradictions between the
regional anti-corruption legislation and by-laws regulating organization and holding of regional anti-corruption
monitoring related to goal-settings. Characterizing the goal-setting in the legal regulation and holding regional
anti-corruption monitoring, the author found out that while in some constituent subjects of the Russian Federation
the goals of anti-corruption monitoring as provided by the regional legislation are expressed broader than in the
by-laws, in other constituent subject the situation is the opposite, when the goals anti-corruption monitoring in
the by-laws are broader than the goals in the regional anti-corruption legislation. Due to the above-mentioned
matters, the author comes to a conclusion that the norms of regional legal acts on organization and holding
anti-corruption monitoring need to be unified, including the sphere of main goals of organization and holding
of such monitoring.

Review: The article includes descriptions of organizational and legal mechanisms of development of the system of
normative legal acts, regulating the issues regarding organization and implementation of the regional and municipal
anti-corruption monitoring. In the point of view of the author, at the first stage it is necessary to develop the concept
of legal regulation of anti-corruption monitoring in the constituent subject of the Russian Federation. At the second
stage, it is necessary to draft and adopt the normative legal acts regulating procedural and technological issues of
anti-corruption monitoring, such as order and methods (methodological recommendations) or rules for the regional
anti-corruption monitoring. At the third state the author offers to develop and adopt the institutional and municipal
normative legal acts on information guarantees of regional anti-corruption monitoring. As a result of his study,
the author came to a conclusion that in order to improve the organizational and legal bases for the anti-corruption
monitoring in the constituent subjects of the Russian Federation, it is necessary to form a group of model codified
normative legal acts on its organization and implementation. It shall allow to support the unified approach towards
the evaluation of corruption level, its causes and efficiency of the measures against corruption in various regions and
municipal units, and to form a united national system of anti-corruption monitoring.

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